# B2B travel portal software in the Philippines

> Sell island stays, tours, boat transfers and packages to agents in pesos, under your own brand, with Filipino on the screen and Manila and Cebu at the centre of it.

*Source: https://itravel.cloud/b2b-travel-software/philippines*

## Philippines at a glance

- **Wallet currency:** PHP
- **Hub:** Manila and Cebu
- **Portal languages:** English and Filipino
- **Suggested template:** Leisure for retail-facing sellers; Inbound for island specialists.

## How the trade works

The Philippines is sold one connection at a time, a domestic flight, then a boat, then a resort, and the weather can break any link in that chain. The Tourism Act of 2009 counts travel and tour services among the primary tourism enterprises that must periodically obtain Department of Tourism accreditation, so a partner's accreditation is part of contracting.

## What operators here are loading

Island resorts contracted by room type and season, island-hopping and river tours with permits and daily caps, and boat and van transfers where a seat on a shared trip and a private hire are two different products.

## Worth knowing

Filipino sits beside English among the 32 interface languages, and every user sets their own, which lets a provincial reseller book in Filipino while your Manila team keeps English.

## Permits with a ceiling

Some of the most-sold products in the country are capped by the authorities that protect them. The Puerto Princesa Underground River enforces a no-permit, no-entry rule: every visitor needs a Visitor Entry Permit from the booking office, and tours run only up to the park's daily carrying capacity. A tour that includes it can sell only as many places a day as you hold permits for.

Model it as a tour option with a capacity per day, add time slots where the boats leave at set times, and ask each traveller at checkout for the details the permit needs. Places are checked when the agent asks for a price and taken under a lock inside the booking, so the last two cannot go to two agents at once.

## When the boats stop

PAGASA puts the peak of the typhoon season from July to October, and boat legs stop whenever the Coast Guard suspends sea travel under a storm signal. The commercial question is less whether trips will be cancelled than how quickly the money, and the agent's balance, follow the cancellation.

Close the affected dates across hotels, tours and transfers in a place in one run, with a preview and a single undo. Where a tour day or a package departure cannot run at all, cancel it from its own page: you see a preview per booking first, each booking is cancelled through its own path, and the refund is credited to the account it was charged to.

## Shared and private on the same water

A seat on a shared boat and a private hire are separate products with separate prices.

- **Shared trips by the seat,** with age bands and a counter that runs down as seats sell.
- **Private hires by the vehicle,** with capacity, luggage and extra stops priced on the vehicle itself.
- **Flights collected where they matter.** A transfer that starts or ends at an airport asks for the flight number at booking.
- **A return leg of its own,** cloned as a draft from the outbound route and priced separately.

## Agents who never visit your office

An agent working from another island needs an account that explains itself.

- **Peso accounts per agency,** prepaid or on a credit limit, with a running balance and a CSV statement.
- **Payments reported with the slip,** and money moved only when you confirm it.
- **Rates for chosen partners.** A product can be hidden from every agency except the ones, or the price tiers, you pick.